How do you make meat pies and what do you call them?
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| January 05, 2011
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Featured Recipe: Spicy Beef Empanadas
Call them empanadas in Latin cultures or in British-influenced countries they’re pastys or pasties. In Eastern Europe they’re bieroks, and here in the U.S. most kids know them as hot pockets.
Regardless of their name, meat pies have been around in various forms and in various cultures for centuries. The basic requirement is some sort of dough wrapped around a filling of meat. However, sometimes you’ll find empanadas with cheese only or with fruit fillings. (Guava is the No. 1 fruit flavor with Cubans in Miami!)
Here’s a “desperate” version of empanadas that we came up with in our test kitchen. Do you make meat pies? What do you call them and how do you make them?
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